Monthly Archive:: October 2011

Facebook, Groupon, LinkedIn and Twitter are four of the most important startups of the past few years, so their patent portfolios are worth monitoring. How many patents do these four companies have? This morning, the popular Twitterer @counternotions made the following inaccurate tweet: http://twitter.com/#!/counternotions/status

Square, the mobile payments startup was founded in May 2010 by Jack Dorsey and James McKelvey. The company makes it easy for individuals and small businesses to accept credit card payments by providing a mobile app and card reader for various mobile operating systems. Though mobile payments is a crowded space with heavyweights such as PayPal [&hellip

Social Networking patents always seem to stir up controversy. One of the most successful social networking portfolios was the Friendster portfolio, which was bought by Facebook last year for almost 40 million dollars. With that in mind, I wanted to take a look at what other early social networking portfolios are out there. As is [&hellip

Glympse, a location sharing startup, allows contacts to share their geographic location with each other for a preset period of time. The company was started in 2008 by Microsoft alums Bryan Trussel and Steve Miller. Th Glympse App is available for Android, iPhone, WinPhone7 and Blackberry. With the recent release of Apple’s iOS5, Apple introduced [&hellip

Siri can no longer be considered a startup since it is now part of Apple. However, not long ago, Siri was one of the most exciting young companies participating in the Apple app store. By now, everyone is eagerly anticipating Apple’s new Siri personal assistant in the and about to be released iPhone 4s. It [&hellip

Twitter is arguably one of today’s hottest companies. In its early days, Twitter suffered from frequent outages due to spikes in demand. However, these problems appear to be well in the rearview mirror. The company launched in July 2006 and so it would be expected that within the past five years Twitter has amassed an [&hellip

About Me

Leonid (“Lenny”) Kravets is an IP attorney focusing on corporate development and strategy at Interdigital, Inc. Lenny’s primary responsibilities include evaluation and analysis of strategic acquisition opportunities, with a particular focus on patents.

Mr. Kravets is a contributor of IP articles to TechCrunch, a popular technology blog. He has been quoted in publications such as Time, Forbes, INC and BBC, and has appeared on the Huffington Post Live to discuss the state of the patent system.Read more…

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